🤝 Collection: University Curriculum – Wide AI Programs
Universities are launching program-specific AI initiatives. This roundup is updated regularly, and the editor invites contributions. MSU is not yet on the list, but examples include CMU’s Applied Intelligence minor and Ohio State’s introductory gen-ed AI courses.

Learn More: University Curriculum-Wide AI Programs

📽 OpenAI Academy: Faculty Video Series Application Form
Faculty are encouraged to apply to OpenAI’s Video Series, which aims to highlight how ChatGPT is being used in teaching and research practice.

Learn More: OpenAI Academy: Faculty Video Series Application Form

🤖 The Open University Built Its Own Institutional AI Digital Assistant
Open University has often been a leader in using technology for teaching and learning. To address institutional concerns (data, privacy, etc.), they built a walled garden. This video shares the story.

Learn More: Implementing Generative AI in Class: An Evidence-Based Model for Responsible Adoption of Generative AI Chatbot Platforms in Higher Education

👩‍🎓 Co-Design AI Tools with Students
Long-term, methodical AI tool design in partnership with students can reveal design issues that get overlooked when building fast tools ungrounded in lived experience.

Learn More: A one-year Design-Based Research Approach of co-designing an Institutional AI Digital Assistant

📝 Students Want Programs that Include AI Training
In their latest survey of learners and employers, Coursera asked whether AI training should be included in degree programs and 93% said yes. Ninety two percent of employers said they’d choose someone with credentialed AI skills over one without.

Learn More: Report: 93% of Students Believe Gen AI Training Belongs in Degree Programs

❓ Students Ask About Concepts More Often When Using an AI Tutor
Built for a physics course, the instructor found that “the AI teaching assistant created an environment where students felt free to ask questions without fear or judgment or discomfort, thereby encouraging more active engagement in the learning process.”

Learn More: Virtual teaching assistant provides personalized feedback; sees successful first deployment in classroom

🤔 An AI Tutor Can Guide Students to an Answer Instead of Just Giving One
UC San Diego built an AI tutor that explains and provides problem sets, but won’t provide the answer. Given it’s success, it’s now being adopted at other universities this fall.

Learn More: This Bespoke AI Tutor Helps Students Learn

💬 30 Harvard Instructors Share How They Use AI
Looking to hear from educators that use AI? This 2024 collection offers a range of topics, disciplines, uses and stances toward AI. Though a bit old (odd to say 16 months makes it dated), there are a variety of good ideas here.

Learn More: Faculty Voices

🔎 Proquest Adds AI Features
Proquest announces new AI Research Assistant in Beta for some university partnerships. The company claims that the tools will allow “natural language inquiries” to refine searches, although there is no publicly available demo or use-case yet for the tool.

Learn More: ProQuest, Part of Clarivate, Launches AI-Powered Research Assistant

💬 Microsoft Offers Copilot Training Series
Microsoft is offering a bi-monthly Teams meeting that includes a Q&A, direct training, and discussions about using Copilot for educators.

Learn More: Register for Club Copilot

📝 Build Inclusive Rooms for AI Policy in Higher Ed
AI policy development in universities can begin with inclusive rooms that emphasize intersectionality, belonging, engagement, and ongoing participation. Task groups may suffer from the representation fallacy, so large institutions could consider creating norms around entering, leading, and inviting campus members into “the room” when policy is being discussed.

Learn More: In the Room Where It Happens: Generative AI Policy Creation in Higher Education

💻 MSU IT – Ed Tech Hosting Educational Technology Summit
MSU IT – Educational Technology is hosting its annual Educational Technology Summit June 2 through June 5. MSU faculty and staff are encouraged to sign up for a number of AI-related sessions including the AI Playground; a virtual drop-in space where you can explore, experiment, and ask questions about AI in higher education.

Learn More: Register for sessions

🤖 MSU Adds ChatGPT EDU
MSU staff and faculty now have access to purchase ChatGPT EDU for $240 a year through the MSU Tech Store. Confidential FERPA data can be put into this license, but it is still unclear if this version of ChatGPT has specific guardrails, system prompts. or administrative controls.

Learn More: MSU Tech Store – ChatGPT EDU Edition

🧠 EDLI Article: Theoretical Frameworks for GenAI and Learning
Instructors need a theoretical framework for evaluating how AI fits in the classroom. The TAM model can be used for perceived usefulness of AI and the SRL framework may indicate how AI impacts metacognition negatively.

Learn More: Theoretical Frameworks for GenAI and Learning

🌴 AI Commons Bulletin Schedule for the Summer
AI Commons bulletins will continue over the summer months with bulletins posted once a week on Mondays. Do you have any feedback for us? Get in touch at aicommons@msu.edu.

Learn More: AI Commons

✋ Hallucinations Are Only One Potential Problem with AI
Strengthen your AI literacy by understanding these additional AI reliability pitfalls:

• Poor quality of source data (garbage in, garbage out)
• Seemingly small changes can cause models to drifting away from the relevant content
• Too many or too few humans in the process
• Using prompts that don’t include enough context for the model to work with
• Working with a model that someone else has tweaked or updated

Learn More: Murray, S. (2025) Top 5 AI reliability pitfalls.

3️⃣ Three Types of Faculty AI Anxiety
Higher levels of academic integrity among academics correspond to lower use of ChatGPT in their work. Researchers identified three types of tech-related anxiety impacting behavioral intent to use AI:

• Fear of harming student learning (most influential),
• Fear of misusing the tool themselves, and
• Fear of professional displacement (least influential).

Learn More: Verano-Tacoronte, D., Bolívar-Cruz, A. & Sosa-Cabrera, S. Are university teachers ready for generative artificial intelligence? Unpacking faculty anxiety in the ChatGPT era. Educ Inf Technol (2025).

💰 OpenAI Begins Monetization in Search
Open AI is framing their new search and shopping model as “search enhancement” but this means that, like Google, retailers can pay to have ChatGPT show users their products. Will this negatively impact search features or model behavior? All signs point to YES.

Learn More: Improved Shopping Results from ChatGPT Search

👍 Beware the AI sycophant
Many AI chatbots are rewarded when the user rates an answer with a thumbs-up. This is RLHF at work (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback). When an AI says you are wonderful, it might be a hallucination! It’s long as you continue to “Like” the compliments, it will pile them on to try to keep you longer in the interaction.

Learn More: Sycophancy is the first LLM “dark pattern”